Position of lips and tongue in rest in newborns with and without ankyloglossia

ABSTRACT Purpose Verify the position of lips and tongue at rest in newborns with without ankyloglossia. Methods Cross-sectional study, carried out 130 University Hospital. Data collection was performed by researcher speech-language pathologists from Information on gestational age, sex, weight, height days life collected. The evaluated through visual inspection asleep. After were awakened, Neonatal Screening validated Protocol for evaluation lingual frenulum infants to detect alteration frenulum. data obtained described submitted statistical analysis using Chi-Square test verify association between compare Mann-Whitney used behavior variables differed significance level 5% adopted. Results When comparing data, a significant difference found between: weight ankyloglossia; tongue. An ankyloglossia also found. Conclusion Newborns have tendency remain their closed elevated during keep parted low rest.